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Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions

Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions. Tony Boston Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing. Outline. Transition to Libraries Australia Report on Libraries Australia - 2005/2006 Services Membership Database growth Usage Libraries Australia developments

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Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions

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  1. Libraries Australia Report and Strategic Directions Tony Boston Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing

  2. Outline • Transition to Libraries Australia • Report on Libraries Australia - 2005/2006 • Services • Membership • Database growth • Usage • Libraries Australia developments • Strategic directions

  3. Kinetica Redevelopment Project • Two year project in 2003-2005 • Completed in November 2005 on time and under budget • New service branded Libraries Australia: • Libraries Australia Search • Libraries Australia Cataloguing • Libraries Australia Administration • Libraries Australia Document Delivery

  4. Libraries Australia achievements • Improved performance • Capacity to innovate • Unicode support – CJK data in the ANBD • Efficiencies in cataloguing, record import and export • Reliable platform for libraries to contribute data: • Viable suppliers, assured future • Modular architecture reduces future risk • Roman and non-roman scripts supported • Financial benefits

  5. Evaluation • Kinetica Redevelopment Project • Post Implementation Review • http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/documents/post_implementationreview.pdf • Libraries Australia • Customer and Stakeholder Satisfaction Survey • End User Survey

  6. Libraries Australia business model • Supported by subscriptions of Australian libraries • All Australian State, Territory, university and most special, government and public libraries • July 2005 new subscription model introduced allowing unlimited searching resulting in increased use

  7. Membership • Libraries Australia • More than 1,100 members • 84 new libraries in 05/06 • 8 individuals • 22 public libraries from Western Australia • Libraries Australia Document Delivery • More than 660 members • 79 new libraries in 05/06 • 47 public libraries from NSW (former ILANET users)

  8. Australian National Bibliographic Database growth

  9. Australian National Bibliographic Database • About 42 million holdings • Over 16 million bibliographic records • Over 600,000 online resources • Over 10 million searches • Almost 230,000 items requested through the document delivery service

  10. Libraries Australia free service • Launched by Senator Coonan on 27 February 2006 at Parliament House, Canberra • Regional launches in Geraldton, WA; Alice Springs, NT; Cairns, Qld and Burnie, Tas. • Find then get items by: • Accessing them online • Borrowing them from your local library • Borrowing them from another library • Buying a copy through Copies Direct • Buying them from an online bookshop • ~10% of searches since its launch

  11. ANBD via Internet search engines • NLA is exposing ANBD content to Google and Yahoo! • ANBD records now in Google Scholar and Google Book Search • More pathways, more users

  12. Improving our services • ANBD Quality Improvement Plan • Data migration • Record Import Service • New search targets • Five CJK databases added • Support for new scripts • CJK, Thai • Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Tamil (in process) • New ways of obtaining records • Serial Solutions

  13. Improving our services [2] • Libraries Australia Search • Five releases in 2005/2006 • Cover art • Personalisation • Deep linking to national, state, university libraries • Links to more booksellers • Libraries Australia Cataloguing • Ease of use • Templates and context sensitive help

  14. Improving our services [3] • Trans Tasman Interlending • NLA & NLNZ collaboration to allow seamless interlending between Australian and New Zealand libraries • 1 March – 30 June 2006 • ~ 1600 items supplied to NZ libraries • ~ 300 items supplied to Australian libraries

  15. Improving our services [4] • RLG site licence negotiated for 2006/2007 • OCLC small libraries agreement extended

  16. Strategic directions • Libraries Australia business plan – 2007-2010 • Improved finding • Relevance ranking • Results clustering • Improved getting • Links to local library catalogues & booksellers • Links to full-text, eg Google Book Search, Amazon • Better fulfilment • User annotation • Software platform

  17. Strategic directions [2] • Increase use of Libraries Australia • Search box • New targets: RMIT e-library, MediText, AGIS • OpenSearch: Cultural collections • ANBD coverage and quality • Article level metadata? • Schools data • Duplicate removal • Better match/merge • Relationship with OCLC

  18. Strategic directions [3] • Citation of ANBD records => cross links between services • Directory issues • Re-badge ALG and ILRS as part of Libraries Australia • Integrate existing directories => single sign-on • Distributed authorisation to Libraries Australia using Shibboleth/MAMS

  19. Conclusion • Libraries Australia • Better performance • Improved functionality • Continuing to innovate • Opening up Australian library collections • Please use it, link to it, promote it to your users!

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